Feb 19, 2011
As models were taking their final turns on the runways of New York Fashion Week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg argued that the country's immigration policies jeopardize New York's status as "the fashion capital of the world," saying they limit visas for designers, manufacturers and, yes, models.
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A bill allowing illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at Colorado's public colleges passed its first test Thursday, clearing a Senate committee after a nearly three-hour hearing in which one opponent asked that all non citizens be removed from the room.
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The Lone Star State just got a whole lot bigger – 4.3 million Texans bigger to be exact - according to 2010 census data released today.
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When it comes to immigration, law-and-order Republicans are at odds with a number of those charged with enforcing law and order in local communities.
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Feb 17, 2011
When Mohamed Mejri, a Tunisian immigrant with a limousine business here, first learned that the State Department of Motor Vehicles had refused to issue him a new driver's license, he thought it was a mistake. After all, he had been a licensed driver in Virginia for years.
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A Democratic-led Senate subcommittee on Wednesday made short work of Republican bills sent over from the GOP-led House to crack down on illegal immigration, including a measure that would have applied Prince William County's strategy to the whole state.
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Republican extremism on immigration could cost them at election time, especially in states with significant Latino populations, recent polling data appears to confirm.
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Even as federal immigration officials were telling Arlington County, San Francisco and other jurisdictions that they could not opt out of a controversial immigration enforcement program, they were telling other municipalities that they could, according to internal Department of Homeland Security documents.
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A voluntary program to run all criminal suspects' fingerprints through an immigration database was only voluntary until cities refused to participate, thousands of recently released documents show. The Obama administration then tightened the rules so that cities had no choice but to have the fingerprints checked.
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The news is not good for them, the report says. Come Election Day, the three amigos can count on immigrant voters turning out en masse - and turning their dream of mass deportations into a veritable nightmare - the group found.
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